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Written by Xanadu
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This could be my last blog entry. This could be the last time you read a blog.
How many of you know about CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire/European Council for Nuclear Research)? About the testing planned in a giant particle collider beneath the bucolic cowfields of Switzerland. Imagine humans trying to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang, in order to "better understand how the universe evolved". Now imagine what would happen if colliding particles created a black hole. Or a strangelet... (For the uninformed, that would mean a fusion chain-reaction of nuclei--of our planet--into the type of quark matter believed to be inside stars!) |
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Written by Xanadu
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I recently exited my lair to check out a lecture by the guru of GNU, Professor Richard Stallman. Now this is a rare person, someone who is so clearly beyond caring what people think of him that he can stand perfectly true to his principles. As an introduction to who he is, and what I’m talking about here, this is the main author of the GNU General Public License and the Hacker’s Dictionary, the developer of the original Emacs editor, an innovator in AI truth maintenance, and the president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Hearing him talk, I was impressed.
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Written by Xanadu
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The art of hacking is more complicated than the average executive thinks. Most suits think that being hacked is some sort of inconvenience: screw that. It is an honor. If a person is hacking your machine it is because they want to use what is on it. You did well. You bought a system that is worthwhile. Take it as a compliment and get out of the way. Some people think it is important to make the distinction between hackers and crackers. According to this line of thought, cracking is the act of sneaking into a machine through hardware blocks, spyware, firewalls, etc. and then "messing around" for a nefarious purpose (and if harm comes, too bad); hacking is is about reaching into a system and using it for a purpose (a hacker can know more about the machine than the designer and wants to push it to its full potential). But really, those fools are talking about the same thing--hacking is hacking. |
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We do. You can't deny the obvious. All our routines vary here and there but ultimately we are all equal in death. Not one moment is worth more than the next, then it all hits a brick wall of nonexistence.
I seriously can't handle that shit. Not for one minute. There has to be another way. Everything I am, it's just data tucked away in a meatball. |
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What am I doing here? I am always here. I live online. I chose to represent the Spider Clan because of my connection to the Web :: non-local space. There are two things that I am opposed to: death and time. These are the things that I am most committed to destroying. Other people go on and on about saving the world, but I have to ask what it all means when we are really just slaves to death and time. |
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